Recall Roundup: September 5, 2010

Here is today's list of food safety recalls, product withdrawals, allergy alerts and miscellaneous compliance issues. The live links will take you directly to the official recall notices and company news releases that contain detailed information for each recall and alert.

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United States

• Food Safety Recall (Eggs): Sparboe Farms (Litchfield, MN) clarifies its previously announced recall to add the Market Pantry brand name to the recall information. Market Pantry X-large 12-count cartons, identified with Plant #P-1906 and Julian date codes 211, 218 or 219, were distributed to Target stores in one or more of the following states: Arkansas, Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wisconsin. The recall also includes Sparboe Farms brand X-large 18-count cartons (P-1906 219) that may have been distributed to stores in Nebraska, Iowa and South Dakota, as well as X-large loose 15-dozen packages (P-1906 219), which may have been shipped to Illinois and Iowa.
• FDA Consumer Advisory: FDA cautions consumers that all Estrella Family Creamery (Montesano, WA) cheeses, including soft, semi-soft, semi-hard and hard cheeses, have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes and may cause serious illness. An August 2010 inspection of the company's manufacturing facility detected Listeria monocytogenes in environmental samples and one product sample. Estrella previously issued recall notices for one or more of their cheeses on February 10th (expanded February 17th) and March 5th.

Some supermarket chains post recall notices on their web sites for the convenience of customers. To see whether a recalled food was carried by your favorite supermarket, follow the live link to the supermarket's recall web site.

• A&P
• Big Y® World Class Market®
  
• BJ's Wholesale Club, Inc.
  
• Bloom
  
• Brookshire's
  
• Costco Wholesale Corporation (US stores)
  
• Costco Wholesale Canada Ltd.
  
• EDEKA (Germany)
• Food City
  
• Food Lion
  
• Giant Food LLC
• Gros Cidac (Italy)
• Hannaford Brothers Co.
  
• Harris Teeter
• H-E-B
• The Kroger Company*
  
• Price Chopper
  
• Raley's
• Roundy's Supermarkets, Inc.
  
• Sainsbury's
  
• ShopRite
  
• Stop & Shop
• Sweetbay Supermarkets
• Target
  
• Top Food & Drug
• Tops Friendly Markets
  
• Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
  
• Wegmans
  
• Whole Foods Market
  
• WinCo Foods
• Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc.
  

*The Kroger umbrella encompasses numerous supermarket, marketplace and convenience store chains, listed on the Kroger corporate home page.